This has come to mind because all the chatter about Meta federating.

I see a lot of people saying they’d love to have that type of content here when Meta federates, and that those will be the best instances because they will have the most content, but they will still be accessible without compromising their privacy.

I truly don’t get this.

I’m not here for mass-produced content, if I wanted that, I’d be in other platforms. The beauty of these communities is they are not filled with posts that are all the same, algorithms and bots. It’s just a community of real people having conversations.

If you want mass-produced trendy content, please, consume it elsewhere, and when you are inevitably fed up, then come here and enjoy the slow-paced, real community.

PD: I hope this doesn’t come across as wall-keeping (or however it’s said lol), It’s my honest opinion.

  • @ComplexLotusEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    Purely text based content is way easier on the servers. If all Lemmy users uploaded videos and high res images all the time, the servers could not keep up, right?

    • consider that they use hardware that is run on donation (or their own) money
    • @UsernameblankfaceEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Do people running servers have any options for limiting the amount of pictures and video that users upload to their instance?

      Having text-only communities sounds like a good way to attract the right people and be an unattractive option for people who just want max content.

      • @TechnoBabbleEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        I really like that idea.

        It would absolutely demolish the risk of a community turning into a meme sub, or one of subs where people just post pictures of their Raspberry Pi in some retail case over and over again.

        And as long as pictures are disallowed on the main post, people could still be free to post links to guides or other important content that contains pictures.

        • @UsernameblankfaceEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Hmm, links to pictures elsewhere seems like it would be less work for the computer running the instance.

          • @TechnoBabbleEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Which would be pretty important if we want to keep monetization as unobtrusive as possible on Lemmy.

            That said, I do think we need to figure out image hosting at some point.

      • @ComplexLotusEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I asked a similar question previously one of the makers of lemmy responded to me:

        Open an issue on that or write a bot

        … I thought sometime in the future I will make such a bot … but turns out I need to use typescript for that.

        • @njtrafficsignshopperEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I might be willing to help with this if you want to tackle it and are interested in help. I’m newish to Lemmy but want to get my feet wet. What tech stack do you prefer? Typescript is a very short leap from Javascript if you already know it, IMO.